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Google search engine in China at exploratory stage: Sundar Pichai
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IANS | 17 Aug, 2018
Facing backlash from employees for its reported plan to enter China with
a censored version of its search engine, Google CEO Sundar Pichai
addressed them in an internal meeting and informed that the project,
called Dragonfly, was at an exploratory stage, the media reported.
Pichai also addressed the controversy surrounding the secrecy of the project, BuzzFeed News reported late on Thursday.
"I
think there are a lot of times when people are in exploratory stages
where teams are debating and doing things, so sometimes being fully
transparent at that stage can cause issues," the Google CEO was quoted
as saying.
The news about Google's plan to build a censored
search engine in China broke earlier this month when The Intercept
reported that the search platform would blacklist "sensitive queries"
about topics including politics, free speech, democracy, human rights
and peaceful protest.
This triggered an outrage among some Google staff who complained of lack of transparency within the company.
Over 1,400 employees reportedly signed a petition demanding more insight into the project.
At
the company meeting on Thursday, Pichai said that Google has been "very
open about our desire to do more in China," and that the team "has been
in an exploration stage for quite a while now" and "exploring many
options", CNBC reported.
While expressing interest in continuing
to expand the company's services in China, Pichai told the employees
that the company was "not close" to launching a search product there and
that whether it would -- or could -- "is all very unclear", the CNBC
report said.
Google had earlier launched a search engine in China
in 2006, but pulled the service out of the country in 2010, citing
Chinese government efforts to limit free speech and block websites.
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